[Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahá, 994, i.e. 1586].

Fine copy of al-Ījī's commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib's (d.1249) Mukhtaṣar al-muntahá, an abridgement of his own treatise on law according to the Mālikī school, Muntahá al-suʼāl wa-al-amal fī ʻilmay al-uṣūl wa-al-jadal.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 1038Origin: As appears in colophon on p. 417, copied by ʻAbd al-Qāʼim ibn Hudá [Hady ?] al-Ḥusaynī with transcription completed ("wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min al-kitābah li-rāqimih ...") 15 Jumādá II 994 [ca. 3 June 1586].Accompanying materials: a. Copy of a letter addressed from Makdisi to Jameson, dated 17 November 1976 "Thank you very much for the 3 folios of your manuscript temporarily designated as Makdisi I. I have finally been able to identify this manuscript. It is the Commentary on the Mukhtaṣar by ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī (died A.H. 756/A.D. 1355) who finished the work in A.H. 734. There are several copies of the same work in the Garrett Collection of the Firestone Library at Princeton University, designated under the following numbers: Garrett 1478, 1479, 1627, 1628, 2170" -- b. Slip with notes in pencil and red ink "MAKDISI – I | Sharḥ Muktaṣar al-uṣūl | Keep in book | 210 leaves (last blank) | 19 cm. | Cannot be filmed."Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 187Binding: Pasteboards covered in bright red (upper cover) and deep red (lower cover) leather with spine in brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; lower doublure in brown leather ; upper cover carrys blind-stamped mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition) ; sewn in pink thread, two stations, many threads broken, quires loose ; worked chevron endbands in pink and lime green, tail gone, headband damaged ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion, delamination and losses to boards, staining, etc. ; quite ill-fitting and detaching at spine ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines only sporadically visible, occasionally in group of two (13 mm. apart) ; fairly transluscent, thin though strudy, cloudy formation with many inclusions, well-sized and burnished to glossy.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and some abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke overlining keywords) rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; mainly an elegant Persianate or Transoxanian hand in a medium line ; quite compact and serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation and somewhat exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes, letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq, pointing mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots, sīn often marked with three dots below, final yāʼ mainly unpointed and often mardūdah, alif maqṣūrah usually mardūdah ; between p.25 and p.117 supplied in a larger and more spacious hand.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: IV-2 (6), III (12), 5 IV(52), III+1 (59), 18 IV(203), III+1 (210) ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present ; foliation in pencil, Western numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "وقد وقع الفراغ من الكتابة لراقمه الفقير الحقير المستغفر من ذنبه الراجي الى غفور ربه الغني عبد القائم بن هدى الحسيني عفي عنهما سياتهما بحرمة النبي الامي العربي وآله في يوم الاربعاء الخامس عشر من شهر جمادى الثاني سنة اربع وتسعين وتسعمائة هجرية نبوية مصطفوية عليه افضل السلام والتحية حامدا مصليا ومسلما تم"Explicit: "فما فوقها حصلت امور لا يكاد يحضر و في القدر الذي ذكره ارشاد لذلك ارشدنا الله واياكم لما ينفعنا في الدنيا والاخرة ... انه المستعان وعليه التكلان واتفق الفراغ من تسويده في السادس والعشرين من شعبان لسنة اربع وثلثين وسبعمائة والحمد لله اولا واخرا والصلوة على نبيه محمد واله باطنا وظاهرا وعلى خيار اصحابه رضوان الله عليهم اجمعين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي برأ الانام وعمهم بالاكرام والدعوة الى دار السلام ... وبعد فان من عناية الله بالعباد ان شرع الاحكام وبين الحلال والحرام ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann,Fine copy of al-Ījī's commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib's (d.1249) Mukhtaṣar al-muntahá, an abridgement of his own treatise on law according to the Mālikī school, Muntahá al-suʼāl wa-al-amal fī ʻilmay al-uṣūl wa-al-jadal.Mode of access: Internet.Purchased in Egypt by Mr. Sulaiman ;Former owners' marks (including statement with octagonal seal impression and waqf statement with oval seal impression) on 'title page' now obscured by bifolium affixed to it and the upper doublure ; UM Library inscription on p.418 "Spec. Coll. Lib. Sulaiman 690713-156 1968/69?" ; glosses and marginal corrections ; collation marks

Sharḥ al-Mawāqif, [15th century?].

Fine early copy of the commentary (completed in Shawwāl 807 in Samarqand) on Kitāb al-mawāqif fī ʻilm al-kalām, the renowned work on theology by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ʻAḍūḍ al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355). Description provided by Noah Gardiner.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 506Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.346b (p.692), copied by ("katabahu...") ʻAbd al-Faqīr. Date of transcription is not specified.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 366" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; on tail-edge "١٦٤".Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather with patches of light brown leather at edges of upper and lower covers and in repairs to spine ; Type II binding (with flap) ; paper pastedowns and flyleaves in rough brown paper ; interior of flap in yellow paper and the same red-brown leather leather ; upper and lower covers each carry a blind-stamped, scalloped (17 lobes) mandorla 52 mm. high (compare Déroche class. NSd 9) accompanied by pendants and a double border consisting of a series of fillets ; three pendants appear on the envelope flap and two on the fore-edge flap ; sewn in red thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, immaculate condition ; threads broken in table of contents and final bifolium ; in fair condition with abrasion and typical wear ; repairs.Support: A number of papers appear in the various parts of the codex ; [1] primary paper is an Oriental laid paper (possibly 15th century Egyptian or Persian paper?) with 3/3/2 chainlines, 8-11 mm. between chainlines, 46 mm. between the sets of 3 and 43 between the sets of 3 and 2 ; the laidlines are very closely set and not very distinct ; [2] table of contents supplied in a European laid paper with horizontal chainlines approx. 25 mm. apart and watermark, namely a 6-pointed star approx. 32 mm. high, centered on a chainline, with the letters C and S (?) beneath, each aprrox. 25 mm. high ; [3] initial replacement folia (quire following the table of contents) on a European laid paper with indistinct chainlines and no apparent watermark ; [4] other replacement folia (fourth quire and final three quires) in a European laid paper with chainlines approx. 24 mm. apart and watermark, namely a lion rampant in a shield with a trefoil above and writing beneath, "T O S C O L A N O".Decoration: Text rubricated with mainly overlining appearing in red ; a number of small diagrams appear in the margins of the book ; those on pp.332, 366, and 376 are extremely rudimentary and seem to deal with simple geometrical concepts ; two sets of circles on p.415 and p.416 occupy a section on astronomy, and the somewhat more elaborate and partially rubricated geometrical diagrams on p.458 and p.459 accompany a discussion of optics ; another oblong figure appears on p.466.Script: Naskh ; three Persianate hands ; [1] primary hand is a rather small, neat Persianate naskh, quite casually pointed and unvowelled ; alifs are almost vertical and sans serif ; The dot of the nūn is incorporated to the point of being non-existent ; ʻAlá written with a rightward-pointing descender ; [2] table of contents is in a very casual Persianate naskh, largely unpointed and totally unvowelled ; [3] replacement hand is a late Persianate naskh, pointed, unvowelled, with nūn having the incorporated dot.Layout: Written in 21-25 lines per page (main in 25, replacement folia at beginning in 24, replacement folia close in 21-23) ; frame-ruled (impression of misṭarah evident).Collation: III(6), 1+I (9), 1+II (14), III-1 (19), 16 V(179), VI(191), VII(205), 11 V(315), VI(327), V(337), IV+I (347) ; foliated in red Hindu-Arabic numerals, generally in the top left corner of each recto, begins with ١ on p.17 and ends with ۳۳۸ on p.691 ; obviously done sometime after the glossing and trimming of the ms. ; catchwords present, though many lost to trimming ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب كتبه عبد الفقير"Explicit: "ولكن هذا اخر الكلام من كتاب المواقف ونسأل الله تعالى أن يثبت قلبنا على دينه ولا بزيغه بعد الهداية ويعصمنا عن الغواية ويوقفنا للاقتداء برسول الله واصحابه والتابعين لهم باحسان ويعفو عن طغيان القلم وما لا يخلق [كذا] عنه البشر من السهو والذلل وان يعاملنا بفضله ورحمته انه هو العفو الرحيم قد تمت"Incipit: "ضمن خطبة كتابه الإشارة إلى مقاصد علم الكلام رعاية لبراعة الإستهلال فبسمل اولا يتمنا ثم قال الحمد لله العلى شانه إلى أخره وحاله في ذاته وصفاته وأقعاله فانه جامع لجهات علو الشان "Title from inscription on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine early copy of the commentary (completed in Shawwāl 807 in Samarqand) on Kitāb al-mawāqif fī ʻilm al-kalām, the renowned work on theology by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ʻAḍūḍ al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355). Description provided by Noah Gardiner.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother.Square seal impression appears numerous times on fol. 8a (p.15), fol. 8b(p.16), and fol.34b (p.692), likely reads "عبد الرحيم سنة ۱۱۹۹" ; this date (1199 [1784-85]) provides a terminus ante quem for the repairs (depending on the elapsed time between the making of the seal and its impression in the ms.) ; beside the seal impression on fol.8b (p.16) a waqf statement appears "وقف اولاد ذكور" ; glosses and corrections in various Persianate naskhs appear throughout, bulk may have been supplied by the ms. copyist

[Ḥāshiyat al-Kaffawī ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah ʻalá al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah, late 18th or early 19th century].

Fine copy of the supergloss by al-Kaffawī (Kefevi, d.1754) on al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah by Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Ardabīlī (d.1543), itself a gloss upon al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah by Muḥammad al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī (d.1494), a commentary on al-Ījī’s (d.1355) Risālat ādāb al-baḥth wa-al-munāẓarah, a work on dialectics. Seems to end abruptly with final leaves left blank.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 110Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests late 18th or early 19th century.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 159. Glosses on al-Risalat al-adudiyah." ; "۳" on interior of upper cover and 'title page' (p.1) ; "٥٢٠" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in olive-tinted European laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd 7) along with tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations with primaries, occasionally primaries only ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, minor spine slant (slightly cocked), detached at spine (effectively hollowback), etc. repairs in brown leather.Support: European laid paper in a few types ; one type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal) ; another type with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of grapes with small crown above ; another type much lighter in color, with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 17-19 mm. apart (horizontal), watermark of scrollwork with 'C S' ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), and three hats (top hats) watermark.Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; possibly two hands ; main hand with slight of effect of tilt to the right and words descending to baseline, virtually serifless, mainly closed counters, freely ligatured (point of final nūn very often assimilated with bowl, etc.), alif maqṣūrah mardūdah, and nūn of عن، من، etc. often reversed (re-curved).Layout: Written in 19 lines per page (beginning around p.118, some lines entered on the diagonal) ; frame-ruled.Collation: 6 V(60), III+2 (68), 3 V(98), III (104) ; chiefly quinions ; final leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "وبالجملة لا محذور في بقاء الاعم والاخص على ما هو المشهور في تفسيرها"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي ادبنا باداب المناظرين وفتح علينا ابواب البحث المفاكرة ... وبعد فيقول الفقير السيد الكفوى ان العلوم على شعب فنونها وتكثر شحونها ارفع المطالب وانفع المآدب ... ففحصت الكتب المصنفة العضدية وشرحها الفائق على الشروح الدائق وحاشية المشتملة على التحقيقات وهو حسبي ونعم الوكيل قوله الملائم للمسبوق ان الضمير راجع الى الشرح المذكور ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the supergloss by al-Kaffawī (Kefevi, d.1754) on al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah by Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Ardabīlī (d.1543), itself a gloss upon al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah by Muḥammad al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī (d.1494), a commentary on al-Ījī’s (d.1355) Risālat ādāb al-baḥth wa-al-munāẓarah, a work on dialectics. Seems to end abruptly with final leaves left blank.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase along with Abdul Hamid Collection (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 159. Glosses on al-Risalat al-adudiyah." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "387" in Western numerals on 'title page' (p.1) ; circular waqf-seal impression in black ink appears on 'title page' (p.1) and several places throughout, reads: "هذا وقف الراجي فيض الصمدي الشيخ احمد ضيا الدين ابن مصطفى الخالدي فمن بدله بعد ما سمعه فانما اثمه على الذين يبدلونه" in name of Aḥmad Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn ibn Muṣṭafá al-Khālidī (i.e. Ahmed Ziyâüddîn Gümüşhanevî, d. 1893 or 4) ; occasional glosses and marginal corrections

Treatises on the Salvation of Abū Ṭālib

The following article surveys a few treatises regarding the salvation of the Prophet Muḥammad’s uncle, Abū Ṭālib b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib (d. circa 619ce). The controversy concerning Abū Ṭālib’s place in the hereafter stems from a wealth of reports condemning him to hell due to his refusal to convert to Islam and others which testify to his lifelong belief in God and the prophethood of Muḥammad. The first group of reports was canonized in the collections of Bukhārī and Muslim, while the second group largely appeared insīraand Shīʿīḥadīthliterature. Although Shīʿī thinkers have upheld the faith and salvation of Abū Ṭālib from the earliest periods of Islamic history, very few Sunnīs shared this opinion despite transmitting some of the same proof-texts cited in Shīʿī works. According to most Sunnīs, these proof-texts were either inconclusive or insufficient in proving Abū Ṭālib’s conversion to Islam or his salvation. However, there is a remarkable shift in the sensibilities of some Sunnīs after the ninth centuryhijrī(fifteenth centuryce). In contrast to early Sunnīs who considered such a possibility to be unlikely or flatly denied it, a few Sunnīs over the past five centuries have joined their Shīʿī co-religionists in their commitment to the salvation of Abū Ṭālib. This article introduces the relevant proof-texts and theological arguments that classical Shīʿī and modern Sunnī writers have utilized to advocate the belief in Abū Ṭālib’s salvation

Ḥāshiyat al-Shaykh al-Dasūqī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah, [1290, i.e. 1873].

Careful copy of the gloss by Muḥammad al-Dasūqī (d.1815) upon the commentary by Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr al-Samarqandī (15th cent.) on al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah, the seminal treatise by ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī (d. 1355?) on ʻilm al-waḍʻ.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 955Origin: As appears in colophon on p.169, copied by Muṣṭafá al-Ḥakīm ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥakīm al-Shāfiʻī al-Miṣrī with transcription completed 24 Shaʻbān 1290 [ca. 17 October 1873] likely in Egypt where the copyist was born and resided.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 104Binding: Boards covered in textured black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "حاشية الدسوقى" ; sewn in white thread, five stations ; overall in good condition with minor abrasion at spine.Support: European (specifically Venetian made by the Galvani firm) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29-31 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of crescent with face (human profile) in shield (see pp.2, 8, 12, 14, 20, etc.), "A G" (p.90) and "Andrea Galvani Pordenone" (see p.92 and compare Walz, The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan, 88-9 and Heawood no.860), sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Keywords (mainly "قوله") rubricated ; supplied in second and part of third gatherings only (see pp.21-43) ; elsewhere lacuna / spaces left but words never entered.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; clear, spacious Egyptian / Turkish hand in a bold line ; serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, lām alif ligature often resembling nūn with point assimilated with bowl, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 8 V(80), III (86), i ; quinions and final ternion ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals below large letter kāf, upper outer corner of the recto of the first leaf of each quire ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "ووافق الفراغ من نسخ هذه الحاشية يوم الخميس الموافق اربعة عشرين شعبان الذي هو من سنة ١٢٩٠ تسعين ومائتين والف من هجرة المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم على يد افقر العباد واحوجهم الى الله تعالى مصطفى الحكيم بن المرحوم احمد الحكيم الشافعي مذهبا المصري مولودا واقامة غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولاحبابه ولجميع المسلمين بجاه نبي الله امين امين امين امين تم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم امين"Explicit: "ذو علم واردت به عمرا وهذا اخر ما يسر الله جمعه واسأل الله الكريم المنان ذا الفضل والاحسان ان ينفع به الاخوان وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد سيد المرسلين وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير محمد الدسوقي هذه تقييدات تتعلق بشرح العلامة السمرقندي على الرسالة العضدية استنبطها من تقرير شيخنا العلامة ابي الحسن علي بن احمد الصعيدي العدوي المالكي عليه سحائب الرحمة والرحمن امين ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Heawood, Edward. Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries. Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae, vol. I Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society, 1950.Walz, Terence. "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its re-export to the Bilad as-Sudan." In The Trans-Saharan book trade: manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa. Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon, Eds. (Leiden : Brill, 2011):Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful copy of the gloss by Muḥammad al-Dasūqī (d.1815) upon the commentary by Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr al-Samarqandī (15th cent.) on al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah, the seminal treatise by ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī (d. 1355?) on ʻilm al-waḍʻ.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in the Fall of 1950.On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory numbers, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No. 7785" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; glosses and marginal corrections (typically marked "ص" or "صح" and often with signes de renvoi)

[Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb... etc., 18th century?].

Fine copy of the superglosses by ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Chillī (fl. 17th cent.) and ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kurdī on al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah by Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Ardabīlī (d.1543), itself a gloss upon al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah by Muḥammad al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī (d.1494), a commentary on al-Ījī’s (d.1355) Risālat ādāb al-baḥth wa-al-munāẓarah, a work on dialectics. Followed by two brief treatises, Risālat Shāh Ḥusayn lil-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah, perhaps another gloss on al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī's commentary by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Shāh Ḥusayn ʻAjamī (d.1514 or 5) [?] and Risālah ḥamdīyah attributed to Minkarizade Yahya Efendi.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 115Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; paper and date in what appears to be authorial colophon on p.137 (1090, i.e. 1679 or 1680) suggest early 18th century.Accompanying materials: Slip with notes (paginated pp.117-118).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 8. Glosses (Hashiyah) on Al-Iji's work on dialectics."Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in marbled paper (in shades of salmon, blue, and yellow) with hinges in a different marbled paper ; upper and lower covers bear large blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with gold-painted accents, filled with floral vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OAi 8) and accompanied by border in tooled and gold-painted fillets ; design continues with rosette and border on envelope flap ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands in white and pink, good condition ; overall in poor condition with paper label applied over upper cover design, some abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather (at board corners and fore-edge flap in particular), fore-edge flap completely detached from lower cover, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of perhaps two types ; mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal) ; thick and well-burnished ; crown with star and crescent above watermark (compare Heawood 1133) and countermark with initials and trefoil above ; some staining.Decoration: Keywords (such as قوله), section headings, and some notabilia rubricated ; a few textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Naskh, two main hands ; opening work in naskh, a fine, clear and compact Ottoman hand ; virtually serifless ; effect of tilt to the left ; many open counters ; kāf mashkūlah (masqūqah) preferred ; freely ligatured with pointing for many final letters assimilated with the letters themselves (see final nūn, fāʼ, etc.) ; remaining works in a naskh showing more influence of nastaʻlīq ; virtually serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline ; extension of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 6 V(60), IV (68), 3 V(98), IV (106) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaves and insert, mistakenly skips two pages between pp.103-104 and repeats pp.117-118 twice).Colophon: [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī ] "Authorial," rectangular, reads: "تمت الحاشية الواقعة على مير ابي الفتح المنسوبة الى ابن مائى المشهور بچلى زاده في بلدة قسطنطنية في مدرسة ابراهيم پاشا في شهر رمضان المبارك سنة ۱۰۹۰"Explicit: "فصار الكل مضاعفا وهو اثنان وثلثون الوفا وستمائة واربعون احتمالا تمت رسالة حمدية تم تم تم"Incipit: [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī] "يا من وفقنا لاداب البحث والمناظرة في الكلام وعصمنا من الخلل والتصور في تجريد [كذا] المدعى والمرام ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى الله الغني عمر بن احمد الشهير بالچلي ان الحاشية الفتحية في الاداب لما كانت لدقتها متوارية عن الاذهاب ولتحجيبها عن العثور مفتقرة الى الايضاح والبيان ... فضمت اليه ما يتمم به النقصان ..." ; [Ḥāshiyat ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kurdī] "نحمدك يا من فتح الابواب للمتفرع السائل ... وبعد فهذه حاشية لطيفة يليق ان تكتب باقلام الذهب على صحائف الفضة للفاضل المرحوم عبد الرحمن ... على الحواشي المنسوبة الى المحقق ابي الفتح الامير ... على شرح الرسالة العضدية للشيخ محمد الحنفي ... فكانت غير مدونة فجمعتها للاخوان الطلاب بعون الله الوهاب ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.6. p.213-p.214 : [blank].5. p.209-p.212 : Risālah ḥamdīyah / Minkarizade Yahya Efendi.4. p.205-p.209 : Risālat Shāh Ḥusayn lil-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah / ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Shāh Ḥusayn ʻAjamī [?].3. p.140-p.205 : [Ḥāshiyat ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kurdī ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb] / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kurdī.2. p.138-p.139 : [blank].1. p.6-p.137 : [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb] / ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī.Ghulāmī Muqaddam, BarātʻAlī. Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭi-i Kitābʻkhānah-i Markazī-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raz̤avī : jild-i bīst va chahārum, manṭiq. Mashhad, 1383 [2004 or 5].Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the superglosses by ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Chillī (fl. 17th cent.) and ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kurdī on al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah by Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Ardabīlī (d.1543), itself a gloss upon al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah by Muḥammad al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī (d.1494), a commentary on al-Ījī’s (d.1355) Risālat ādāb al-baḥth wa-al-munāẓarah, a work on dialectics. Followed by two brief treatises, Risālat Shāh Ḥusayn lil-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah, perhaps another gloss on al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī's commentary by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Shāh Ḥusayn ʻAjamī (d.1514 or 5) [?] and Risālah ḥamdīyah attributed to Minkarizade Yahya Efendi.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase along with Abdul Hamid Collection (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 8. Glosses (Hashiyah) on Al-Iji's work on dialectics." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "375" in Western numerals on front flyleaf (p.1) ; waqf statement on 'title page' (p.5) in name of al-Sayyid al-Ḥājj ʻAbd Allāh, muftī in Erzincan reads "حاشية مير لابن چلي وقف السيد الحاج عبد الله المفتى بكتبخانه معموره بارزنجان" ; glosses and marginal corrections

[Majmūʻat rasāʼil, 1093 to 1095, i.e. 1682 to 1684].

Elegant copy of a collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of treatises on assorted topics. Contents listed on second flyleaf at opening of codex (p.1).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 253Origin: As appears in colophons on p.69, p.110, and p.451, entire majmūʻah likely copied by Hābīl ibn ʻUmar with transcription of Kitāb al-Chighmīnī finished 26 Rabīʻ I 1095 [ca. 13 March 1684], transcription of Ashkāl al-taʼsīs completed 19 Ṣafar 1095 [ca. 6 February 1684], and transcription of al-Shāfiyah completed 12 Muḥarram 1093 [ca. 21 January 1682]. Completion of transcription for the other works not specified, but likely falling between 1682 and 1684. Colophon on p.367 would indicated that Matn al-Bayḍāwī fī al-naḥw was copied by ʻUmar al-Marsawī [?] [perhaps the copyist's father] with transcription completed 9 Rabīʻ I 1060 [ca. 12 March 1650], though the copyist very likely simply copied this verbatim from the exemplar.Accompanying materials: a. Slip of ruled paper with "Jaghmīnī | Mulakhkhaṣ | trans. into German | 2 DMG | 47, L13" in pencil -- b. Insert carrying glosses tipped in (paginated pp.373-374).Former shelfmark: "219 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "18" inscribed in pencil on 'title page’ (p.3) ; "٣٢٣" on tail edge.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; two-piece binding (overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves (as well as flap lining) in a fine marbled paper (in red, blue, light green, and maroon) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled elongated central lozenge and roll border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in light blue thread, two stations, failing with many gatherings loose ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and light blue, some damage but in fair condition ; overall in fairly good condition with only minor abrasion and lifting of leather ; fore edge flap somewhat small.Support: European laid paper of several types, all well-burnished ; opening type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 20-21 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of large, elaborate scrollwork / arms with two stars (see p.12-13), scrollwork / arms with mermaid or figure above (see p.8, 18, etc.), another scrollwork / arms with chevrons and again figure above (see p.6, 20) ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of three hats (see p.32-33, etc.), sturdy and slightly thicker ; another type with 11-12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of lion rampant (see p.112), quite sturdy ; some leaves tinted (pink, orange, ochre, etc.), others untinted but silver-flecked, and still others both tinted and silver-flecked.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red ; written area surrounded by frame consisting of a narrow gold band outlined with black fillets ; several diagrams in red and black (see p.7, etc.).Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; bold, elegant hand ; serifless, with characteristic descent of words to baseline ; elongation of horizontal strokes as well as exaggerated contrast in thickness as compared to vertical strokes.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board clearly evident).Collation: ii, 3 V(30), III (36), 3 V(66), VII (80), 14 V(220), ii ; chiefly quinions ; several leaves between each work left blank ; catchwords present in opening work, then lacks proper catchwords but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes some flyleaves and inserts, skips two pages between pp.203-204 and skips ahead ten pages from 333 to 344).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.20. p.452-p.454 : [blank].19. p.372-p.451 : al-Shāfiyah / ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib.18. p.368-p.371 : [blank].17. p.322-p.367 : Matn al-Bayḍāwī fī al-naḥw / ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar al-Bayḍāwī.16. p.314-p.321 : [blank].15. p.302-p.313 : Tahdhīb al-manṭiq / Saʻd al-Dīn Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī.14. p.296-p.301 : [blank].13. p.292-p.295 : al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah / ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī.12. p.284-p.291 : Risālat al-istiʻārah / Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr al-Laythī al-Samarqandī.11. p.282-p.283 : Matn al-Ḥanafīyah / ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī.10. p.277-p.281 : [blank].9. p.164-p.276 : Tahdhīb al-kalām / Saʻd al-Dīn Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftāzānī.8. p.158-p.163 : [blank].7. p.116-p.157 : Hidāyah fī al-ḥikmah / al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʻUmar Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī.6. p.111-p.115 : [blank].5. p.76-p.110 : Ashkāl al-taʼsīs / Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Samarqandī.4. p.70-p.75 : [blank].3. p.4-p.69 : Kitāb al-Chaghmīnī / Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jaghmīnī.2. p.2-p.3 : [blank].1. p.1 : [contents listing].Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Elegant copy of a collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of treatises on assorted topics. Contents listed on second flyleaf at opening of codex (p.1).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Inscriptions in pencil on verso of front flyleaf "219 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and opening 'title page' (p.3) "18" ; on second flyleaf at opening carrying contents listing (p.1) ownership statement and oval seal impression in name of al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʻAṭāʼ Allāh (Mehmet Ataullah), statement reads "استصحبه الفقير السيد محمد عطاء الله غفر له" and seal impression appears to be dated 1192 [1778 or 9] ; marginal glosses (some in decorative geometric shapes, see p.105)

Ḥāshiyat Ḥamzah Afandī wa-Ibn Chillī wa-Minqārīʻzādah, [1108, i.e. 1696 or 1697].

Fine copy of three superglosses by Hamza Efendi (d.1712), ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī (fl. 17th cent.), and Minkarizade Yahya Efendi (d.1678) each on al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah by Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Ardabīlī (d.1543), itself a gloss upon al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah by Muḥammad al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī (d.1494), a commentary on al-Ījī's (d.1355) Risālat ādāb al-baḥth wa-al-munāẓarah, a work on dialectics.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 114Origin: As appears in colophons on p.126 and p.181, transcription of the second and third work finished in 1108 H [1696 or 1697 M]. Copyist for the second and third works may be the author of the statement on the 'title page' (p.1), ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad. All papers suggest 17th century.Accompanying materials: Scrap with notes, etc. (paginated pp.39-40).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 129. Adab al-bahth, with 3 commentaries."Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid marbled paper (in salmon, yellow, and green) with spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; envelope flap in different marbled paper ; sewn in once pink [?] thread, two stations ; worked endbands in red and yellow, fair condition ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, some lifting and losses of leather, envelope flap detaching from fore-edge flap, fore-edge flap ill-fitting (small), some spine slant (slightly cocked), etc.Support: European laid paper of roughly three types ; first work supplied on a European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 21-22 mm. apart (horizontal), three circles watermark with initials 'A R' [?] and cross above, only lightly burnished ; second and third works supplied on two papers, one a thick and burnished European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), and crown-star-crescent watermark (compare Heawood 1133) the other a European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark ; some staining.Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq ; two hands, with first work provided in one hand and second and third works provided in another hand ; both virtually serifless with mainly closed counters and slight effect of words descending to baseline (more exaggerated in second hand) ; some exaggeration in thickness of horizontal strokes (more so in bolder first hand).Layout: Written in 21 and 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V (10), V+1 (21), 4 V(61), I+1 (64), 2 V(84), IV (92) ; chiefly quinions ; leaves left blank between works and at close ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert and skips two pages between pp.33-34).Colophon: [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī] "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمت الحاشية الشريفة لمولانا عمر بن احمد الجلي الامدي [؟] على حاشية الفتحية في الاداب سنة ۱۱۰۸" ; [Ḥāshiyat Minqārīʻzādah] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الاوراق بعناية الخلاق سنة ۱۱۰۸ م"Incipit: [Ḥāshiyat Ḥamzah Afandī ] "يا محسنا لمن نادب في مقام العبودية بخير الاداب ويا هاديا لمن جاهد في الطاعات سبيل الصواب ... لما كانت الفوائد مشتهرة بين العلماء ... علقت عليها ما يكشف عن وجوه فرائدها ..." ; [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī] "يا من وفقنا لاداب البحث والمناظرة في الكلام وعصمنا من الخلل والقصور في تحرير المدعى والمرام ... فيقول الفقير الى الله الغني عمر بن احمد الشهير بالچلي ان الحاشية الفتحة في الاداب لما كانت لدلتها متوارية عن الاذهاب ... فضمت اليه ما يتمم به النقصان ..." ; [Ḥāshiyat Minqārīʻzādah] "الحمد لمن رفع قوله من تأدب لاظهار الصواب ... وبعد فيقول الراجي من ربه الفوز بالسعادة يحيى بن عمر المشتهر بمنقاري زاده تحرير التقرير ان صدرت على اداب مذاكرة الرسالة الحنفية وحاشيتها الفتحية في الاداب ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. composite codex.6. p.182-p.184 : [blank].5. p.130-p.181 : [Ḥāshiyat Minqārīʻzādah ʻalá al-Ḥāshīyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb] / Minkarizade Yahya Efendi.4. p.127-p.129 : [blank].3. p.44-p.126 : [Ḥāshiyat al-Chillī ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb] / ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī.2. p.42-43 : [blank].1. p.1-p.41 : [Ḥāshiyat Ḥamzah Afandī ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah fī al-ādāb] / Hamza Efendi.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of three superglosses by Hamza Efendi (d.1712), ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī al-Chillī (fl. 17th cent.), and Minkarizade Yahya Efendi (d.1678) each on al-Ḥāshiyah al-Fatḥīyah by Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Ardabīlī (d.1543), itself a gloss upon al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah by Muḥammad al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī (d.1494), a commentary on al-Ījī's (d.1355) Risālat ādāb al-baḥth wa-al-munāẓarah, a work on dialectics.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase along with Abdul Hamid Collection (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 129. Adab al-bahth, with 3 commentaries." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "188" in Western numerals on 'title page' (p.1) ; on blue-tinted paper pasted on ’title page’ (p.1), a detailed waqf statement in the name of al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh Adīb (Abdullah Edip), known as Jannatʹzādah (Cennet-zade), qāḍī of Erzurum, accompanied by his seal, reads: "وقفت وقفا صحيحا شرعيا بشرط ان لا يخرج من بيت الكتب الذي بنيته في اتصال داري ان احتاجوا اشد الاحتياج بكفيل مرعى اورهن قوي وانا الفقير اليه عز شانه السيد عبد الله اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم عفى عنه في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; also on 'title page' (p.1) ownership statement reads "من عواري الزمان ومستودعات الملوان لدى الفقير اليه سبحانه عمر بن محمد احسن الله حالهما والى الفردوس مآلهما بمباركة شرعية ومقابلة مرعية في ۱۱۰۸" ; occasional marginal corrections and glosses